Puerto Rico Beautiful eyes! Sad eyes. Empty eyes. I saw them for the first time when we arrived at the community of Rio Chiquito in Coamo, Puerto Rico. Those eyes were looking at each of us as we visited the community. They followed who continuously took photos and videos. “He has the eyes of my […]
Prideful thinking Hunkering down…is an interesting expression. It is more related to males than females in my experience. To hunker down is ‘to stay in a place for a period of time’, ‘to seek shelter’, maybe in a violent storm or heavy winds. When I was a child, our family had a storm shelter to […]
Temporary confinement INCARCERATION…speaks of confinement of inmates inside a jail or prison. Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The term is a specially used for the confinement of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects. Either way, it is simply being ‘locked up’. I have spent […]
Encouragement through blessings Encouragement…comes in many different forms. It can be as little as a thumbs up gesture, pat on the back, words like ‘well done’, a hug, prayer or just sitting and listening. I get encouragement every day from something or some person or persons. Just today, I went to a Restoration Outreach Dallas […]
A Calling Why do I, do you, do we involve ourselves in things? There are many reasons; some selfish, while many are because you are driven by passion, a calling, something bigger than yourself. It is not so much the what, when, where or how as it is the ‘why’. Once why is settled, these […]
Let God do the carrying I am struggling in finding the adequate words to describe an experience that is beyond words, in fact, beyond anything we can find in this world… Since I have been in Rwanda I have been asking God to transform the knowledge that He has given me about who He is, […]